Harry Dean Stanton: S/D

(that's a good thing)

He just looks like he's seen things beyond our understanding. Like the Ancient Mariner.

much of ry cooder's stuff on there is based on one blind willie johnson song, "dark was the night--cold was the ground."

IF IT IS A GIRL SHE WILL BE NAMED MARY DEE

his version of the william bell classic "you don't miss your water" is AWESOME.

my barman friend just told me his mom had a HS dance w/ him

my fav qoute remains

"Ordinary fuckin' people... I hate em"

From last night's "Avengers" premiere. Egads.

http://i2.cdnds.net/12/15/618x890/pa-13282371.jpg

wait is he IN the Avengers?!

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Man, Neil Young has lost a lot of weight

He plays Thor.

No, actually, I don't know. I don't think so, though. Just showing up at the premiere.

xp Morbs OTM

tbf looking good/healthy has never been Harry Dean's style

Also, unrelated but Seth Green may be the luckiest human being alive.

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0gPv991093c8F/613x459.jpg?fit=scale&background=000000

it was nice of HDS to leave his tomb for the premiere

omg @ Harry. I haven't seen a pic of him in a long time. Jeez.

aside from the hair, he doesn't look that different than he did on Big Love.

Paris, Hell

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he's 86 years old dude, cut him a break. also, he's awesome.

I'd still kiw him

not 86 til July, apparently

yes I'm too tough w/ the age jokes 'round here

people who live in glass retirement homes shouldn't throw stones~!

i keed i keed

Is that... his real hair?

would you get fake hair that looked like that? I think it's real

I know, that was my thought! It just seems inexplicably colored

Beginners would've been fun if he had the Plummer role.

Alice Cooper's looking rough.

he should have replaced brad pitt in tree of life

someone needs to take away his and al pacino's Just For Men supply

I think HDS's hair color is just 'haven't washed it'

Watching Escape from New York on TV and wondering if there's an HDS biography or autobiography out there I might have overlooked. I wish I knew more about him - he's always seemed like such a fascinating guy and I bet there's a million fantastic stories I've never heard.

Love this Dan Winters portrait of him:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uiarJGT9bk8/TN8TJ6WDlXI/AAAAAAAABfc/Vza2vI4ajyg/s1600/hds.jpg

I almost don't like him because I am jealous of him

This doc about him has been getting good "buzz" at the Venice Film Festival: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2372776/

Geez, that looks great (brings to mind the Cazale documentary).

YESSSSSSSS

My dayjob is sending me to Paris, Texas, in mid-Feb

i saw the last film he was in, Lucky, when it was in theaters. as mesmerizing as ever. i enjoy watching him just be himself. he was a fucking legend imo

pic.twitter.com/SEBD4Gj09n

— SNL Hosts Introducing the Musical Guest (@snlhostsintro) October 1, 2021

His first IMDB credit is 1954--and he was already 28. I think Paris, Texas was something of a breakthrough in terms of name recognition, after which he was everywhere for the next few years. (He was everywhere in the '70s, too, but he was just "that guy.")

Or maybe Repo Man was the breakthrough the year before.

Straight Time may have been the first HARRY DEAN STANTON role.

I dunno, cases could be made for Rancho Deluxe or Dillinger, or even Cisco Pike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBQl0hCmV5I

what's awesome about that SNL Replacements clip is that it was the legendary performance that got them banned from SNL (and effectively, tv) for years afterward, and HDS was drinking with them backstage beforehand, according to the Trouble Boys bio

to me, HDS is a legend because there's just no way you're at the right place at the right time doing things exactly the right way that many times in a row

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_p4NsgH05E

I'd bet money that Paris, Texas was the first time he was billed first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd2EzQsZteA

He was great in lots of films before that, but he was the ultimate character actor (and went back to that soon enough).

He was good in Renaldo and Clara too.

On Twitter last night---don't know if he really said it but it's worth saying:
|I'm 87 years old.,. | only eat so I can smoke and stay alive. The only fear |
hove is how my consciousness is gonna hang on after my body goes. I just
hope there's nothing, like there was before I was born. I'm not really into
Religions, they're all microcosms of the ego. When man began to think he was
a separate person with a separate soul, it created a violent situation...

The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.

Anybody else you interviewed bring these things up? Hang on, I gotta
toke this call...Hey, brother..That's great, man. Yeoh I'm bein interviewed...
We're talkin’ about nothing..I’ve got him well-steeped in nothing right now.
He's stopped askin’ questions.
Harry Deon Stanton
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For the longest time I got him and Dean Stockwell mixed up and was always puzzled that the guy from Quantum Leap was so lauded.

the guy from quantum leap was also good imo (at least in Blue Velvet)

When I saw David Lynch introduce the DC-area premiere of Inland Empire someone asked him what HDS was like and he replied "Harry Dean... is the funniest person I have ever met." He then told a story about going out drinking w/ HDS, Angelo Badalamenti and someone else, and that Harry Dean started telling some story that had them all rolling laughing. "This story kept getting funnier and funnier, and I thought... there's no way this guy can go further with it. BUT HE DID!" He never mentioned what the story was.

Yeah, Stockwell played a Blue Velvet-y creep on the Battlestar Galacta too, and he's good--much younger, with shoulder-length hair, yet kinda--cleancut---compared to Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson, whom he's understandably overshadowed by, in Psych-Out:

Psych-Out 1968 (Director's Cut 2015 Blu-Ray Edition) [HD] 1080p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHcNjetHydM

Galactaca *reboot* I meant duh sorry

https://fabulousinfayette.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/IMG_5543-1024x768.jpg

Found this pretty interesting (from Wikipedia): "Paris, Texas appeared on a posthumous list of Akira Kurosawa's 100 favorite movies."

Talk about Dean Stockwell last night on this thread--eerie.

^^ Thought the same thing this morning.

whoa, wait I thought that had something to do with the mention here...

sorry dean

is this the dean stockwell RIP thread now?

Stockwell was a longtime friend of musician Neil Young, and the pair co-wrote and co-directed the little-seen 1982 film “Human Highway.” Long an artist, Stockwell designed the cover art for Young’s album “American Stars ‘N Bars.”

i did not know that!

Oh there's more:

“Stockwell’s screenplay is long lost” is truly a heartbreaking statement. pic.twitter.com/yVhaMzbaQ6

— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) November 9, 2021

Stockwell designed the cover art for Young’s album “American Stars ‘N Bars.”

That's actually one of his cooler album covers, even if the album itself is not all that stellar

maybe neil young didn't know that "stars and bars" has long been a name for the confederate flag, just like "stars and stripes" is for the US flag. but he probably did.

The title pops up in a rhyme on the inner sleeve.

https://crimereads.com/harry-dean-stanton-is-the-hero-of-every-noir/

Brother Bud’s philosophy is, “Everybody ought to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.” Sounds a lot like the guy holding court at Dan Tana’s twenty-five years later, who was fond of saying, “We’re all gonna live forever. But I’m gonna outlive all you motherfuckers.”